Steve Kuehl has been a faculty member at VIMS since 1993.

He currently has 2 lab techs and 5 graduate students, but during the course of his career he has mentored 14 other graduate students as well as a number of undergraduates.

Steve successfully maintains lab morale and manages to keep the group happy with a constant supply of chocolate with some field work in destinations including New Zealand mixed in here and there.

Steve's Webpage

Linda Meneghini has kept Steve's lab in working order since '95.

Linda received her  B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. She is involved in all aspects of the lab including keeping the lab stocked with essentials, ordering and maintaining laboratory equipment, running samples, and working in the field.

Linda's Webpage

Lisa Addington received her B.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina and her M.S. from VIMS. She has been working as a lab and research tech in Steve's lab since the completion of her Master's degree in December '05.

Her work ranges from running samples to constructing acoustic systems for field work to designing webpages!

Lisa's Webpage

Lila Gerald will complete her M.S. in the fall of 2006 at which point she will begin working on her PhD with Steve Kuehl.

Lila's research site is located along the continental shelf off the Waipaoa River, New Zealand.  She is characterizing storm event signatures in marine sediments using physical property and geochemical analyses of box, kasten, and Vibracores.  Her research includes the use of 210Pb and 7Be geochronology, X-radiography, carbon, and grain-size analyses.

Lila's Webpage

Cielomar Rodriguez is a recent graduate of the University of Puerto Rico. She participated in the REU internship program at VIMS during the summer of '05 and enjoyed it so much that she decided to join our lab as a graduate student.

She will be starting her master's work in August '06.

Pat Dickhudt is the lone male graduate student in Steve's lab. He received his undergraduate degree in Geology at the University of Minnesota and is now working on his M.S. under the advisement of both Steve Kuehl and Carl Friedrichs.

Pat's work focuses on studying variability and controls on fine sediment erodibility in York River.  He is using Gust microcosm for erodibility measurements and calibrated digital X-radiographs for sediment bulk density measurements.  

Annie Miller completed her undergraduate degree in 2005 from the Texas A&M University at Galveston. She started her Master's work at VIMS immediately after graduating.

Her research involves studying sedimentation patterns and sediment accumulation rates on the continental shelf of New Zealand to create a sediment budget for the shelf.  She is also interested in comparing the modern sedimentation patterns to the sedimentation from the entire Holocene and identifying possible changes due to environmental and anthropogenic impacts.

Tara Kniskern completed her Master's degree in 2001 under the advisement of Steve. She is now finishing up her PhD work under both Steve Kuehl and Courtney Harris.

For her PhD Tara has been working on linking sediment transport models with observed sediment transport mechanisms and accumulation patterns on the Waiapu Shelf, New Zealand.

Tara's Webpage